A few months later I attended a four-day Zentangle Teacher certification training led by Zentangle co-creators Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas. They developed the method by combining Rick’s previous experience of living as monk for 17 years with Maria’s professional talents as an internationally sought after lettering and calligraphic artist. "Our Zentangle method is a way of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns. At the training and during subsequent conversations, Rick and Maria shared numerous anecdotes describing the positive affect of the Zentangle method on individuals and their lives.

Cohort One: Members of Narcotics Anonymous, a 12 Step Program for individuals recovering from addictions.
Ekphrasis: Joan Miró by Shuzo Takiguchi. The wind’s tongue.

The always clear cobalt sky bit at your painting. In a prehistoric poster words doze like pebbles. A gallop of feathers kidnaps the conversation between coarse ropes and wild beasts. You paint within a blinking birthmark. Formal Analysis - Writing About Art. Formal Analysis Formal analysis is a specific type of visual description.

Unlike ekphrasis, it is not meant to evoke the work in the reader’s mind. Instead it is an explanation of visual structure, of the ways in which certain visual elements have been arranged and function within a composition. Strictly speaking, subject is not considered and neither is historical or cultural context. The purest formal analysis is limited to what the viewer sees. The British art critic Roger Fry (1866-1934) played an important role in developing the language of formal analysis we use in English today.

Ekphrasis - Writing About Art. Ekphrasis One particular kind of visual description is also the oldest type of writing about art in the West.

Called ekphrasis, it was created by the Greeks. The goal of this literary form is to make the reader envision the thing described as if it were physically present. In many cases, however, the subject never actually existed, making the ekphrastic description a demonstration of both the creative imagination and the skill of the writer. For most readers of famous Greek and Latin texts, it did not matter whether the subject was actual or imagined. Homer’s description of Achilles’ shield in Book 18 of the Iliad stands at the beginning of the ekphrastic tradition.

Many writers in subsequent centuries followed Homer’s lead and wrote ekphrastic descriptions. In the second half of the 18th century, ekphrastic writing suddenly appeared in a new context. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most influential Victorian writer about art, famous for his impassioned defense of the painter J.M.W.

Printing « Pixels Foto & Frame eshop. Documentary Film Finding Vivian Maier. This intriguing documentary shuttles from New York to France to Chicago as it traces the life story of the late Vivian Maier, a career nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.

Vivian Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer born in New York City. Although born in the U.S., it was in France that Maier spent most of her youth. Maier returned to the U.S. in 1951 where she took up work as a nanny and care-giver for the rest of her life. In her leisure however, Maier had begun to venture into the art of photography. Consistently taking photos over the course of five decades, she would ultimately leave over 100,000 negatives, most of them shot in Chicago and New York City. In Finding Vivian Maier, Maloof teams with producer Charlie Siskel to uncover this mystery. Director Biographies John Maloof Charlie Siskel Film Information. Rogan Brown - Paper Sculptures.

If you thought you had to travel to exotic locales to photograph captivating subjects, think again. Award-winning conservation photographer Clay Bolt shows you how to find, approach and photograph fascinating insects in your own backyard with spectacular results. Learn to work with available light and shallow depth of field to create crystal-clear images. Explore a variety of off-camera flash setups to enhance color and texture, increase sharpness and freeze motion. Use wide-angle macro lenses to create surreal images that showcase your subject and its habitat, and get Clay’s expert tips for successfully photographing insects in flight. Lesson plan Lesson 1. Meet your instructor, natural history photographer Clay Bolt, and uncover the world of macro photography. Lesson 2. Lesson 3. Clay reveals how using one, two and even three off-camera flashes can really highlight your tiny subjects.